Blessings and miracles small and large :)

[Blackmarch]

I'd like to start an uplifting thread for people to share various experiences of blessings and/or miracles they've had in their life (ones that they'd be willing or want to share).




I'll start with a small one I had in my childhood;

In our church we have an acronym CTR that stands for Choose The Right, which is on a green background shield and is used on various things along with WWJD stuff. Anyways this happened when I was 6, our sunday school classes had given out these tin CTR rings to each of us and I really thought the world of it, and wore it everywhere. during the following week, I was playing outside in the yard and at some point it had slipped off and I ddin't even notice until sometime after I was done. I then spent the next couple hours just combing the yard and house without result. Still outside, I finally decided to kneel down and pray and ask for help to find that ring. After finishing when I was starting look up I saw it right between my knees at the bottom of the grass.



I look forward to hear your experiences.

[Secundulus]

I'd like to start an uplifting thread for people to share various experiences of blessings and/or miracles they've had in their life (ones that they'd be willing or want to share).




I'll start with a small one I had in my childhood;

In our church we have an acronym CTR that stands for Choose The Right, which is on a green background shield and is used on various things along with WWJD stuff. Anyways this happened when I was 6, our sunday school classes had given out these tin CTR rings to each of us and I really thought the world of it, and wore it everywhere. during the following week, I was playing outside in the yard and at some point it had slipped off and I ddin't even notice until sometime after I was done. I then spent the next couple hours just combing the yard and house without result. Still outside, I finally decided to kneel down and pray and ask for help to find that ring. After finishing when I was starting look up I saw it right between my knees at the bottom of the grass.



I look forward to hear your experiences.
I have often felt that I had a legion of Angels looking out for me for some unknown reason.

Once, when I lived in Alaska in the Army, I was out driving in an extremely dense ice fog in the winter. You literally could not see three feet in front of the car. We were driving on a familiar dirt road and crossed over some train tracks that we knew were there but did not see in the fog. I looked back as we crossed and a train was there. Either we missed the train by mere inches, or we somehow passed through it. God is great.

[A New Dawn]

When I was young, we were very poor and most of our cars were what I would today junk. They often didn't run and my father was always out there working on them. In the winter it was harder to do that because we had no place indoors to work on them, and as often as not we couldn't get them started. But on Sunday mornings we'd get in the car, hoping it would start, but it frequently never did. Then we'd pray (all of us (5 kids in the family)) and after a while the car would start and we'd get to and from church fine, and then the rest of the week we'd be back to having problems with it.

The faith of children. :)

[Blackmarch]

Wow those are awesome!
Thank you for sharing :)

[Idea]

What a great thread! I can't count the number of times I have prayed to find my keys, or for help understanding something at school, or to stay safe...

We have a pool. One time we had a bunch of family over, cousins, aunts, uncles... we were just talking, not really paying attention to anything... I looked over, my oldest daughter was underwater... I don't know how long she had been there... In movies people who drown make a lot of noise - splash around and all that - in real life, there is no splashing, no yelling for help - there is no noise. It only takes 2 minutes for them to die. She is alive. That morning we prayed, as we always do, to "keep us in health and in safety"... I know it is not good to say repetitive prayers, but this is something we always include in our prayers.

PS – CPR is NOT what you use on a drowning victim. You cannot force air into their lungs when their lungs are already full of water. Use Heimlich maneuver to get the water out – this is new info, some life guards do not know this yet. Spread the word!

Another night. We had our youngest in the pack-n-play with us in the bedroom. My DH had to get up early in the morning, our little one was being fussy - got the thought that to be nice, I should take her to another room to let my hubby get some sleep - so I dragged the entire pack-n-play into the game room for the night. That night, lightning struck our house. It hit a tree next to the house, then came off the tree, into the house. Blew a hole in the roof, melted wires in the wall together, knocked a picture off the wall, blew up appliances... and burnt two holes in the floor where our DD pack-n-play had been earlier that night... Scary - wonder why the lightning had to hit the house? We're getting a new roof installed as well as a few other things fixed.... new breaker box, electrical work ... house will be a lot safer now... but we would not have been able to afford it without an insurance claim...


Every time I look at my girls, I see healthy, living, walking miracles.



I cannot leave my dear little boy out. Perhaps this is not quite as drastic, although it was pretty bad... We are down here in Texas where it is rather hot out... He loves to eat ice-cubes. I love ice to - everyone who lives here does. Anyways, turns out our nightlight lightbulb looked like a chunk of ice. I found him with a funny look on his face - he was chewing on something, grinding it up in his mouth. I pulled out the metal part of the lightbulb. It was a medium sized lightbulb - not just alittle LED - it was about 2 inches long... So we go to the hospital, sure enough, cat scan shows chunks of broken glass through his entire system. Aren't kids fun :) The doctors have no clue what to do. They are calling all the other hospitals in Houston, no one knows what to do. They have never had anything like this happen before. There was nothing they could do... I got the idea from somewhere to feed him some bread - thought maybie it would gum up around it, stick to the glass and insulate it. The next thing I was to feed him was fruit - fruit juice, bannanas - nature's laxitive. surprising the doctors did not come up with this simple painless solution...In my panicked state of mind, I do not know how I came up with it, I think I had a little guidance from upstairs... A week later, another cat scan showed that all the glass was out. There was never any blood - not in his mouth, or in his diaper - somehow he got through it unhurt.

The still small voice...
how many ideas come to our mind, and we think nothing of it - some strange idea that we should not take the highway home, or that we should call someone... we get some crazy idea, and then we fight with ourself, justify why we should not do it, that we would be intruding on others, or that there was no rational reason for why we should do it... If we don't want to do it, if there was no rational reason for us to have the thought ... where did the thought come from? and why do we feel somehow wrong if we do not act on it? That we have to fight with it and feel guilty about it, and create excuses for not doing it...those nagging thoughts that we are not able to dismiss... those thoughts - weird ideas that don't go away that hint at what we should or should not do... where do they come from?
Just a thought... (for those who are not LDS)